Exactly how does Glastonbury deal with the needs of 177,000 revellers? Hugo Rifkind asks the questions you don’t want answered

You see jaunty, hand-painted signs on white backgrounds pretty much everywhere
you go at the Glastonbury Festival, telling you how to get to the Pyramid
Stage, or the Other Stage, or just the best way to get the hell out. There
is one though, high up above the west corner of the site, on which most
festival-goers will never set their eyes. “Stadium of Shite” it says.

It is on a sewage tank. I can’t tell you how many gallons it holds, because
the number that I wrote down in my notebook, before the word “million” is
obscured by a